Dear Editor,
More than 50% of Americans think that the Presidential Election was stolen and yet with all our outrage we have not been able to stop what may be the greatest history making heist ever recorded.
We freedom loving Americans are good at expressing our outrage: we do it through social media, through demonstrations, from the pulpit, through our news media, and over the holiday dinner table. The truth is that our anger and outrage is well founded; but, outrage is not the same as “taking action”. Outrage masquerades as action, but in truth it is “passive reflection”.
Here is the truth of the matter. We see what is happening. We express our anger and outrage, but we are powerless to stop it. Why? Because outrage is not action, it only leads to frustration which is also a state of inaction.
For years we have complained about our “do-nothing” congress, but the truth is we are a “do-nothing society”. We send these do- nothing legislators to congress and then express our anger, outrage and frustration over actions they may or may not be taking in our behalf.
For years we have been told that we should “take action at the ballot box”. Supposedly that is our remedy for effecting change.
Now we have learned that you can steal a national election by corrupting a minority of the states’ electoral systems. We call them “battle ground” states.
This corruption has played out before our very eyes, and it has demonstrated that the ballot box is not always the friend of a free people. America, the ballot box is no longer a remedy to root out injustice.
Our do-nothing society is now powerless to effect change for the good of society.
To borrow an expression, “our situation is complicated”. Ours’ is not the world of 1776. We are not an isolated group of adventuresome, freedom loving colonists, who are willing to pledge their lives and their wealth to preserve this federal republic through conflict (war). That very act of defiance, in itself, would collapse the society in which we live.
Why am I saying this? When anger, outrage, frustration, and taking action at the ballot box can no longer protect our freedoms, our only course of action is violence (resistance) expressed as armed confrontation. This action worked when our nation was founded. Today it would only serve to further destroy the nation we call home.
As a “do-nothing” society we are truly on the horns of a dilemma. To borrow another expression, “we are damned if we do and damned if we don’t”.
America I fear that for too long we as a free people have been all talk and no action. Now we are paying the price and I predict that when we see the price tag for our inaction we’ll just be............outraged.
John Eubanks
Sarah, MS
